Cycle-stand.



I. SCHWINN.

CYCLE STAND.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 24. 19I5.

1 1 90,956. Patented July 11, 1916.

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IGNAZ SGHWINN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CYCLE-STAND.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 11, 1916.

Application filed March 24, 1915. Serial No. 16,715.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, IGNAZ SGHWINN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cycle-Stands, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in cycle construction, and more particularly to a form of stand adapted to support the rear wheel of the cycle clear of the ground, and to a means for attaching the said stand to the frame of the cycle, and to the construction of the frame for cooperation with my improved stand.

My invention will be more readily under stood from the following detail description of one embodiment of the same. In this description reference will be had to the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a rear Wheel and the rear portion of the frame of a cycle; and Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 of Fig. 1.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, the numeral 10 designates the rear stays or frame-members, and the numeral 11 the rear fork, each rear stay being joined to the corresponding rear fork-member by a. tailpiece, designated generally by the numeral 12 and comprising a flattened portion 13,

which lies parallel to the plane of the cyclewheel 14, and diverging arms 15, 16 which receive and secure the rear stay 10 and rear fork member 11, respectively.

My invention is particularly concerned with the manner of forming the flattened portion 13 of the tail-pieceto the end that a standmember may be combined therewith. Such a stand-member is shown in the drawings as consisting of a generally U-shaped bracket 17 preferably formed of a bent channel-section and having bearing-feet 18 at its lower corners, stayed by suitable braces 19. The upstanding legs of the bracket are each provided with pivot-members, each pivotmember consisting of a pair of plates 20, 21,- secured, respectively, to the outer and inner faces of the channel section bracket-legs and extending beyond the end of the same to embrace the fiattened portion 13 of the tailpiece 12, the extending portion of the pivotmembers being bored to receive a pivot-bolt 22 on which the bracket or stand may swing. In the operative position of the stand, it is intended to rest upon a supporting surface,

bearing on the feet 18 and to extend at a slight rearward inclination. To support the stand in this position, I form integrally with each of the tail-pieces 12 an extended lug 23 having a straight rear face 24 inclining at the desired angle. By means of the plvot-members 20, 21 the legs of the stand swing in the plane of the flattened portion 13 of the tail-piece, the ends of the leg-sect onsbeing slightly bent, as indicated at 25, to bring these end-portions into the vertical plane. By this construction, therefore, 2'. 6., by mounting the leg-sections in the plane of the depending lugs 23, the forward faces of the leg-sections bear against the rear faces of the lugs in the operative position of the stand, and act as a positive stop to prevent further movement of the stand, and in efiect form a support which replaces the braces and the like commonly used for the purpose of securing the stand.

In the inoperative position of the stand, it is swung rearwardly about the pivot-bolts 22 until it reaches an approximately horizontal position, at which point it is caught by a spring snap-member 27 which may conveniently be carried by the end of a mudguard 28 surrounding the wheel, and is thus supported in the horizontal position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1.

l/Vhile I have shown and described in considerable detail one specific embodiment of my invention, it is to be understood that such showing and description is illustrative only, and for the purpose of making my invention more clear, and I do not regard my invention as limited to these specific details, except in so far as such limitations are included within the terms of the following claims, in which it is my intention to claim all novelty inherent in the invention as broadly as is permissible in view of the prior art.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is' said bracket-legs and adapted to contact with the legs when the stand is swung to operative position.

2. In cycle construction and in combination, a cycle-frame, tail-pieces carried thereby for the mounting of a rear wheel therebetween, said tail-pieces having flattened portionslying in a vertical plane and provided with downwardly-extending lugs hav ing downwardly and forwardly inclined rear faces, a stand-member comprising a U-shaped bracket, and forks carried by the ends of the bracket-legs and embracing the said tailpieces and pivotally secured thereto whereby the said bracket-legs may contact with the downwardly and forwardly inclined faces of the said lugs to support the stand in operative position.

IGNAZ SCHWINN. In the presence of N ELLIE B. DEARBORN,

K. ONEILL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

